String Quartet Cello,String Quartet,Viola,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998835 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Folk,Standards. 7 pages. Robert A. Howard #6134575. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998835). This work is influenced by the folk-inspired works of Bartok, particularly his use of alternative scales (such as the octatonic), and the textures created in his string quartets. This piece's title refers to its two main 'axes' on C and F sharp (almost as tonic and dominant poles) in the work's employment of the octatonic scale. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of string player, including students and the more advanced. Duration: 2 minute 30 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1089363 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #693561. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1089363). This is the first in a set of three piano miniatures, which, as part of the compositional process, originally derived melodic material by setting lines from Shakespeare's Sonnets to music. In this ternary form piece, the opening section explores sequences of 'chord building'. This is followed by a middle section based on arpeggio figures, before returning to the initial ideas in inversion. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for almost all standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players. Other works from this Sonnet cycle, as well as the complete set, are also available via Sheet Music Plus. Duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Bassoon,Bells,Flute,Guitar,Hand Percussion,Trombone,Viola - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998839 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards. 4 pages. Robert A. Howard #6139311. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998839). This work is an orchestration for mixed small ensemble of a piano miniature, by the same composer (Mother and Child - also available via Sheet Music Plus). The piece is based on the common sculptural theme of the mother and child (and more specifically a wood carving of this image by Peter McGann). A five note ostinato in the bass represents the circling, rocking motion of a cradled child. The ostinato enables contrasting lines to emerge around this constant element. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for higher standard musicians, including students and the more advanced.Duration: 3 minute 15 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1405132 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,New Age. 12 pages. Robert A. Howard #988170. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1405132). This work is flexibly scored in four parts, using the ranges roughly equivalent to that of a string quartet (though any suitable instruments can be used). Players can make necessary adaptions to the music, including those of octave transpositions, any instrumental doublings, or otherwise. The piece aims to depict a non-specific journey, through aspects of stasis and minimalism. Gradual, long-term harmonic change is juxtaposed alongside rhythmic interplay, especially through the use of cross rhythms and hemiolas. Note: this document is the full score only.Duration: 5 minutes 20 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, PRS).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Horn - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998773 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Contemporary,Holiday. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #5868817. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998773). This piece is an arrangement of a short work for handbells (also available in a one hand piano version), originally written as a centenary tribute to the great American composer Aaron Copland (born 1900). The work makes a brief reference to Copland's famous 'Fanfare for the Common Man' before developing its own sense of line. Harmonies are created by sustaining melodic notes in the manner of bells. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for higher standard horn players, including students and the more advanced. The handbell, and the one hand piano versions of this work are available for purchase via Sheet Music Plus.Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Brass Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1399327 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Patriotic. 6 pages. Robert A. Howard #982611. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1399327). This short fanfare was written at the time of the Coronation of King Charles III in 2023. It is scored for a brass quartet of two Bb trumpets, one French horn in F, and one trombone. As the title suggests, the piece explores a series of fanfare-like musical canons, within a simple ternary form shape. The pitch material is based exclusively on the notes of the extended triad (or arpeggio). The work is highly accessible, and can be performed by more advanced players.Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1089750 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #693957. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1089750). This is the sixth in a set of seven pieces that each elaborate upon ideas previously left dormant in sketch form. This particular piece is a simple cycle of ascending repetitions of a 10-bar added-note chord sequence, with octave bass line, that rise by a perfect fifth each time. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players. Other works from the Sketch cycle, as well as the complete set, are also available via Sheet Music Plus. Duration: 3 minutes 30 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1089752 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 21 pages. Robert A. Howard #693959. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1089752). This is the complete set of Sketches I-VII, that each elaborate upon ideas previously left dormant in sketch form. The first piece has a slow introductory feel, with a rising added-note chord sequence alongside a descending bass line, in crescendo. The second piece is based on a 7-bar ground bass (rising a minor third each time), that features considerable textural variation on each cycle, and culminates in a 3-part canon. The third piece explores the whole range of the piano in varied statements of a 10-bar semiquaver toccata theme, featuring canons and a superimposed scotch-snap theme. The fourth piece is cumulative, in four sections, and gradually descends in pitch by alternating hands in a minimalist build up of motifs, each followed by a chordal refrain. The fifth piece gradually builds up a right hand melody over various syncopated harmonies and appoggiaturas, before inverting the role of the hands. The sixth piece is a simple cycle of ascending repetitions of a 10-bar added-note chord sequence, with octave bass line, that rise by a perfect fifth each time. The seventh piece is a varied repetition of the opening movement (thus framing the cycle), with the initial chord sequence now arpeggiated, and with a fuller texture. The cycle is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players. Individual pieces from this Sketch cycle are also available separately, via Sheet Music Plus. Duration: 18 minutes.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1401695 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 31 pages. Robert A. Howard #984878. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1401695). This First Piano Sonata is in three movements. The work is subtitled 'Bells', as each movement explores a different aspect of ringing bell-tones, whilst avoiding any direct reference to, for example, the change-ringing of church bells, or otherwise. The first movement (Chimes) suggests aspects of sonata form, with a ricochet-rhythm first theme based on fifths, and a lyrical second subject. In the ternary form second movement (Requiescat), funereal bells toll and peal in cycles of textural thickening and thinning. The final movement is a relentless perpetual movement of parallel chords and hemiolas, passing through a giant circle of fifths, in the vague manner of a carillon.Duration: 24 minutes.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Medium-High Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1398881 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,A Cappella,Advent,Christmas,Classical. 3 pages. Robert A. Howard #982155. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1398881). This work is an unaccompanied solo voice setting of the famous poem by Christina Rossetti. It features a 3-verse structure (mirroring the text), with coda. The piece attempts to depict the increasing sense of abundant love, referred to in the text. The main melodic material is deliberately simple and rather folk/chant-like. The work is highly accessible, and is designed for performance by good solo singers, able to effectively sustain such unaccompanied singing. Versions for SATB choir, and for SA choir (both unaccompanied), are also available via Sheet Music Plus.Duration: 3 minutes.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1089365 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 5 pages. Robert A. Howard #693563. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1089365). This is the second in a set of three piano miniatures, which, as part of the compositional process, originally derived melodic material by setting lines from Shakespeare's Sonnets to music. In this ternary form piece, the initial section builds harmonies from a simple two-note rocking idea. Then follows a middle part based on a sequence of semiquaver arpeggio figures, before returning to a variation of the opening section, developing into a 6/8 coda. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players. Other works from the Sonnet cycle, as well as the complete set, are also available via Sheet Music Plus. Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1089751 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,Instructional. Score. 2 pages. Robert A. Howard #693958. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1089751). This is the seventh in a set of seven pieces that each elaborate upon ideas previously left dormant in sketch form. This particular piece is a varied repetition of the opening movement (thus framing the cycle), with the initial chord sequence now arpeggiated, and with a fuller texture. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students and more advanced players. Other works from the Sketch cycle, including the complete set, are also available via Sheet Music Plus. Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998826 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Celtic,Classical,Contemporary,Folk,Irish. Score. 5 pages. Robert A. Howard #6115517. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998826). Strathspey is a ternary form piano piece. The outer sections are based on a repeated main theme, featuring the 'scotch snap' rhythm in the aeolian mode transposed to D. The middle section focuses on the dominant and texturally varies repetitions of a contrasting chord sequence. The work makes passing use of other 'scottishisms' such as drones and parallel triads, all within a modal context. The piece is highly accessible and is appropriate for most standards of pianist, including students, more advanced players and professionals.Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Instrumental Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1404016 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Contemporary,Contest,Festival,New Age. Individual part. 2 pages. Robert A. Howard #987185. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1404016). 'Rumblin'-Tum!' was inspired by the noise of stomach rumblings. The piece was conceived in flexible terms, for any solo wind instrument, and is written in graphic notation. The performer is free to interpret the positions of lines, squiggles and shapes that are drawn over a conventional stave. Therefore the work suggests or implies certain pitches, while other parameters remain fully open, such as tempo and dynamics.Duration: Variable.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk

Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1408422 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 21st Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,New Age. 4 pages. Robert A. Howard #991006. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.1408422). Promenade II a flexibly scored, open form, improvisatory version of the original Promenade piece for full orchestra, based on the same musical material. This second piece features 21 separate musical 'blocks' (labelled A-U). These are to be allocated to the available musical instruments. The blocks can be freely stated and repeated, in an improvisatory manner, as players sensitively respond to the changing texture during the course of a performance. Full playing instructions are given on the score. Note: the document provided is the full score (with indicated transpositions). No audio track is provided due to the considerably flexibility and variability of performances. The original version is available via a search of the COMA Music Library.Duration: Variable.Registered with PRS (Performing Rights Society, UK).Composer's website: www.roberthowardmusic.co.uk